List of dead Kremlin critics grows with Nemtsov murder

MOSCOW (AFP) - Boris Nemtsov's name was added to the list of Kremlin opponents who have been killed or died in suspicious circumstances in recent years after the slaying of the prominent opposition leader in central Moscow on Friday. Here are some of the key people to have died: Feb 27, 2015: Leading opposition figure and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, 55, is gunned down at around 11.15pm just metres from the Kremlin, in the very heart of the Russian capital. March 23, 2013: Former oligarch and fierce foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Boris Berezovsky, 67, is found hanged in a bathroom at his country home in Britain, where he was living in exile. Coroners record an open verdict into his death after being unable to confirm it was suicide despite strong evidence that Berezovsky had killed himself. Nov 16, 2009: Financial lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, 37, dies ...